These first emotions, of course, must be tempered by certain harsh realities, including the ethnic conflicts that have raised grave concerns about the future of perestroika. Nevertheless, great ...

Gorbachev initiated a twin policy of limited expansion of domestic freedoms (glasnost) and economic reforms (perestroika). The central aim of the section of the bureaucracy led by Gorbachev was to ...

Mikhail Gorbachev set out to save the Soviet Union with bold reforms. Instead, he unleashed forces that would bring it to its knees. This is the story of Perestroika and Glasnost.

play Perestroika and glasnost: Gorbachev's reforms Gorbachev's two main reform ideas are perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness). Gorbachev announces reform plans to increase liberty ...

Rather than a new and climactic stage in a protracted process of bureaucratic self-reform, the policies of perestroika and glasnost, the fool’s gold embraced with such enthusiasm by opportunists ...

Former Supreme Court judge leads committee to review Constitution and laws for strengthening State autonomy and federalism.

Arkady Ruderman (along with cameraman Yuri Gorulev) still shot his film about Chagall, but the figure of Chagall himself remained, as they say, "behind the scenes." At the center of the plot was ...

will be remembered as the initiator of improving relations with the West and the founding father of the perestroika and glasnost policies that implied a smooth transition to a market economy while ...

This is the story of an extraordinary project, born of perestroika and glasnost, which challenged Soviet views on art and sexuality. The illustrations here are a selection of artworks which formed ...

The last president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and father of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, died Tuesday in Moscow at the age of 91. “This afternoon, after a long and ...